For seniors, the end of the year means closing the yearbook and looking toward what’s to come. Juniors like Mikayla Gdanvo and Alexander Kuhn find themselves in the same boat by choosing to graduate early. 
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The best way to learn is through doing, which is exactly what the Education Academy aims to do by allowing its students to create and implement a lesson plan for individual Alternative Curriculum Program…

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In day-to-day life technology can be used to help with just about anything. Low vision technology for people with visual impairments has advanced tremendously over the years to the advantage of many people….

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The entertainment industry is dominated by actors who fit into stereotypical molds and it often fails to provide roles to people with disabilities. At just the age of 7, freshman Cale Ferrin recognized…

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While most dogs are busy walking through parks and fetching toys, Alley, an 8-year-old yellow lab, has a full-time job working for the Omaha Fire Department. 

Six years ago, Alley became the department’s…

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Sixty four years after the Broadway opening of West Side Story and 60 years after the first movie adaptation was released, Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake hit theaters on Dec. 10, 2021….

Spreading new languages with the hope of promoting the appreciation of other cultures is what spurred the Millard West Spanish Honors Society (SHS) to start and run a Spanish Club for third graders at…

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For the first time ever, high schools across Nebraska have expanded the wrestling program into boys and girls teams. Sophomore Halle Opat’s dedication was instrumental in advancing equal opportunity…

“Lord of the Flies,” “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Catcher in the Rye,” “The Great Gatsby” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” The commonalities between these literary works: white authors,…

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With the digital world constantly growing, more and more people are looking to get into the goldmine that is Information Technology (IT). For senior Jonathan Jimenez, that is exactly what he sought out…

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It all began with a protest. The #FreeBritney movement, which began April 22, 2019, after rumors surfaced of Britney Spears’s horrible conditions that were forced by her father. At the time, it was not…

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Accident victims, cancer fighters, patients with various disorders and so many more fill hospitals and doctors offices around the world. Blood transfusions are often an essential component in combating…

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America is obsessed with youth. We fund billion-dollar industries that help people cling to their younger days through Botox, cosmetic surgery, hair dye and retinol. In 2019, we spent almost 17 billion…

Senior Thomas Bigler relaxed his joints as he entered the upstairs shower, exhausted from a lacrosse battle in Kansas City. He fixed his focus on the relieving streams of water trickling down from the…

This story was originally published on The Catalyst on May 10, 2021.

Millard West alumni Joey Drwal and Sophie Hill, who graduated in 2021, were given a unique opportunity to spread awareness on a topic they are both passionate about. The alumni are U.S. Youth Ambassadors…

As an underclassman, junior Connor Thelen dressed like most other high school boys; every week, he cycled through T-shirts and khakis. When students returned from online school last fall, Thelen took the…

This story was originally published on The Catalyst on May 4, 2021.

For years, the Dickmeyer family of seven spent their summers at bowling alleys, participating in the national Kids Bowl Free program. During the summer before her freshman year, the game got just a little…

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